US Honors 1000th GI Lost
Today as we mark Memorial Day, the United States has lost its 1000th GI to the combat in Afghanistan. Marine Corporal Jacob Leicht, a native of Kerrville Texas, had been in country just two weeks after spending the last two years in physical therapy for a serious injury sustained in combat in Iraq. He would have turned 25 on the fourth of July.
In interview for CNN, Leicht’s brother Jesse spoke of the meaning of his brother’s sacrifice as a single tear ran silently down his face. He told the interviewer:
“He did the ultimate thing. It’s people like him that makes so I that I can go out to eat with my friends, that I can live here on this piece of property with my family, that I can wake up in the morning and go to work.”
Marine Corporal Jacob Leicht is one face out of thousand, one family out of crowd of those who truly understand what today is all about. As you gather your own family close to you this Memorial Day, remember him and the thousands of others like him. Remember those who have been lost and all those who today, right now, are holding a weapon so that you and I don’t have to.
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